**OFFICIAL M860TU/ETU Owners Lounge**

Totally agree man ..lol
Even if you got 200FPS you would not be able to tell the difference.
To many people get caught up in numbers the most important part is how it handles a game and anything over 60FPS is great.

 

I'm thinking of buying a "Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition with Windows 7 upgrade" for my M860TU, but was wondering if the 64-bit version will give problems with drivers and games. Any thoughts ? (I would like to install some older games aswell)

 

This has to be the biggest joke ever... It made me laugh.
Nevertheless... CS source is not, by all means, a game that will put your computer to test. Try something like crysis, or similar. In the end of the day, if it makes you happy to have tons of fps, just throw Chuckie Egg at it...

 

You shouldnt have any problems with a 64bit OS. I am running Windows 7 RC x64 on my M860ETU and all of the drivers work fine. All the ones on the CD worked fine for me as long as you run them as an administrator. As for games I have yet to run into a problem with games not being compatable. The exception here is gametap which does not support x64 OS's yet but as long as you dont use that you should be fine.

 

Is there any internal Blue-Ray Writer available for M860TU?

 

What are the regular temperatures for the sager?

 

@h0w1er, yes, most are offering a 2x blue-ray 8x DVD combo read/writer
@Marc, from 30-40 CPU/GPU and 40-60 HDD (idle to gaming)
check this thread and the screenshots in my sig link for better comparisons of temperatures.

 

I believe h0w1er wants a blu-ray writer, which most suppliers do not offer, but they are available elsewhere as the drive bay is a standard laptop sata bay.

 

actually xoticpc is offering the blu-ray writer, so the best person to ask is Justin from xoticpc.

 

You might want to look at this: http://cgi.ebay.com/HATCH-LG-GBW-T1...rnal?hash=item2555e57362&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14 for a good blu-ray DL writer for a very cheap price. I got this for my M860TU at $120 and is absolutely working flawlessly.

 

Wow, that's actualy a good price for a Blu-ray burner.

 

Yeah dude, really. Got it at a bargain. I had to buy one that burns Blu-ray DL discs since my desktop's blu-ray burner (LG GBH-H10N) just supports SL.

 

@Sov

YGPM

 

I was playing TF2 and noticed a beep sound, so I quit the game. A couple minutes later I get the same single beep. I'm using headphones and the beep comes from the computer speakers. Anything I should be worried about?

 

Your computer is actually a timebomb and that beep means that the timer has activated.

 

Oh damn. So that's what this timer display means.

(maybe I'm just being too anal)

 

I'm not saying it's a downer or it's , but I'm just asking if it can perform better than that. I understand that you can't see fps over 30 or somewhere around that and 60 is just perfect, but I'm just saying that if you try to compare the maximum fps it can do, compared to another card (9800m gs in this case) it should out perform it. I'm not unhappy or anything about this laptop (other than the fact I can't boot up XP Pro cd on start up). Which brings up my other problem.

I try to boot a Windows vista cd on boot up. But it shows a flashing "_" and boots to windows. (I'm trying to upgrade/clean reformat). Yes I'm quite noob and not really sure about this (including the fact I've never encountered this problem before).

BTW, yes I have Changed the setting in the bios to vista before booting the cd on startup.

 

I don't want to start with you, Pinoy24Sniper. Please don't go there, please don't.

As for your bootup issue, did you set your ODD as first string in the boot options?

 

Hahhahah. Yeah sorry. =[

As for the ODD, yes I have.

 

Yes Pinoy24Sniper, I hate to say this but I think we're from the same country and damn you just told us in your second post that it's a downer and NOW you're saying it isn't..

@Sov

Let's have pity with this guy, lol.

 

I'm trying my damn best to overcome my short temper. I just don't like seeing other Asians making our people look bad. Fortunately, he has agreed to let it go after I gave him the option to do so. I respect a man that apologizes for flipflopping in his debut posts, and I would appreciate it if we all would leave this behind us so he can start off on the good foot.

 

Yeah, I would've PM him to help but he deactivated his PM feature.

 

New users need atleast five posts to send and receive PM's. He doesn't have five posts yet.

 

Hello, my new Blu-ray player! Thanks Kevin.

 

Oh yeah, forgot about that. *facepalm*

 

No prob Kevin

 

1. I still don't know what the difference is now. The "Pix Glare" version costs $ 20 more btw, so I'm assuming it's better or not ? What is the actual difference between the 2 ?
2. So which one would you recommend for a gamer then ? I'd love to take the 7200 rpm to boost performance (even if it's just a little bit), but if it makes my notebook heat up to much (and thus drop performance) then I'd rather not go for it.

/Prophex

 

1. 
   
   It´s not Pix Glare, it´s 1680x1050 Pixels, Glare.
   Meaning the resolution is 1680x1050 Pixels and you can choose between Glare ( = glossy) screen and non-glare ( = matte). And for some reason the glossy screen costs 20 Euro more.
   
   If you don´t know the difference glossy screens reflect light a lot more but tend to have sharper colors and contrast. If you plan on using the computer outdoors, in a brightly lit room or with windows right behind you I suggest you go for the non-glare. If not, I personally would choose glare.
   It´s a matter of personal taste.

 

Yeah, I'm really sorry if I offended anyone here. I don't like to start any trouble, and I like the forum community here. I learned a lot by reading your posts and such. Sorry for being a pain.

 

You didn't offend anybody, dude. No worries. Welcome to the few pinoys who owns an M860TU/ETU.

 

AHAHAHHA! Thanks man!

 

Did you pay by money order to XoticPC and then let them ship the laptop directly to our country?

 

No. I payed by credit card. And they did ship directly to Canada.

But I'm thinking you think I live in the Philippines? If so, then I'm sorry, but I live in Canada (sadly). LOL! I wish I lived in Philippines.

 

Oh ok, lol. But are you a Filipino?

 

Yeah! For sure!

 

Lol ok.. Nice

 

So that makes you Filipino Canadian, yes?

 

well pinoy = filipino in their language...

i doubt that one can see any difference between 60 and 160fps
as the laptop screen is capped at 60fps anyways(60hz)
and also...relying too much on the fps , its just not much difference with those who blame drivers for not giving them enough 3dmark06 score....

well...buy it and be happy with it...
im so far contended with it as long as it can run the games..whether the settings at super high , or low...

 

Yes that does make me Filipino Canadian.

Yeah. I'm a dumba** =( Sorry.

Errr... btw. Did anyone seem to have the same problem with me with the setup disk not reading on start-up?

To be dead honest, when i got this laptop, I bought it without an OS, so I tried installing XP on it, but it would go to blue screen. And before I can read anything it would restart. (Again, I changed settings in BIOS and changed the boot order.) I'm able to use this laptop NOW because my friend was happy enough to let me borrow his HDD (It had XP pre-installed.) LOL! (Yeah I was desperate.) I really don't want to return this for repairs because school is coming up and I'm quite content with how things are atm. I just want to be able to use "MY" HDD because of the space (My friend's hard drive is a 5400RPM + 100GB).

 

Are you able to access your XP disc in Windows after you installed your friend's hard drive?

 

I payed by credit and chose Express Shipping; it got here in less than two weeks.

Yes, it must truly be a sad state of affairs when you live in one of the world's best countries

 

Anyone has a driver for the webcam? I downloaded the BosonCam from the clevo website but the webcam won't turn on...

 

The ones from the Driver CD should work fine. Try toggling Fn+F10 to make sure the cam is actually powered.

 

Anyone using the Intel Robson 2Gb memory for the NP8662? How would it affect performance while gaming?

 

Robson only helps opening applications and booting up faster, it will have no impacting on your performance while gaming...it will only open your game faster.

 

My laptop didn't come with a driver CD... Anyone can upload theirs?

 

In the meanwhile, you can use this. http://www.clevo.com.tw/en/e-services/Download.asp

 

OK, I think I got the right driver, but the problem is that it says no USB camera device found in INF...there is no image/camera category in my device manager. Does that mean it didn't detect a built-in camera? So there is something wrong the camera - that's just great, only had it for 2 days.

 

Did you turn on the camera?

 

Yeah, I turned it on...it says power on in that little window on the top left.